A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion: Key Figures, Formative Influences and Subsequent DebatesBloomsbury Publishing, 15. juuni 2006 - 276 pages The phenomenological method in the study of religions has provided the linchpin supporting the argument that Religious Studies constitutes an academic discipline in its own right and thus that it is irreducible either to theology or to the social sciences. This book examines the figures whom the author regards as having been most influential in creating a phenomenology of religion. Background factors drawn from philosophy, theology and the social sciences are traced before examining the thinking of scholars within the Dutch, British and North American 'schools' of religious phenomenology. |
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... Problem in the Study of Religion (1999) and the edited volume by Braun and McCutcheon called Guide to the Study of ... problems have come to be defined, understood and interpreted by contemporary scholars in the field. The critical ...
... Problem in the Study of Religion (1999) and the edited volume by Braun and McCutcheon called Guide to the Study of ... problems have come to be defined, understood and interpreted by contemporary scholars in the field. The critical ...
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... problems I encountered was which figures I should include and which I should exclude in such a review. A partial resolution to this is suggested by the title of the book itself, which limits the thinkers examined to those who can be ...
... problems I encountered was which figures I should include and which I should exclude in such a review. A partial resolution to this is suggested by the title of the book itself, which limits the thinkers examined to those who can be ...
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... problem of deciding how some are included and others excluded, a point to which I will return shortly, but it does attempt to place the scholars selected within a broad frame of reference. This avoids the difficulty of rejecting some ...
... problem of deciding how some are included and others excluded, a point to which I will return shortly, but it does attempt to place the scholars selected within a broad frame of reference. This avoids the difficulty of rejecting some ...
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... problem Pals faced in selecting his seven theories of religion remains my problem, but in a more limited sense. I must justify my choice of scholars and my methods for selecting them. That this is a formidable task can be demonstrated ...
... problem Pals faced in selecting his seven theories of religion remains my problem, but in a more limited sense. I must justify my choice of scholars and my methods for selecting them. That this is a formidable task can be demonstrated ...
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... problem of the relationship between the subject and the object has been introduced forcefully into the current debate by challenges, such as those put forward recently by Gavin Flood (1999), that cast doubt on the continued ...
... problem of the relationship between the subject and the object has been introduced forcefully into the current debate by challenges, such as those put forward recently by Gavin Flood (1999), that cast doubt on the continued ...
Contents
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The Contributions of Troeltsch Weber and Jung to Phenomenological Thinking | 67 |
Chapter 4 The Decisive Role of Dutch Phenomenology in the New Science of Religion | 103 |
The British School of Phenomenology | 141 |
North American Phenomenology at Chicago and in the Thought of W C Smith | 171 |
Subsequent Debates in the Academic Study of Religions | 209 |
Bibliography | 249 |
Index | 263 |
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